My motherinlaw recently lost her husband and is now letting go. She is in the end stage of her life. It is so sad for her family. We wish her well on her future journey.
I agree that it's odd to think kids don't play with guns any more when a cop shot Tamir Rice, who was a kid playing with a toy gun. Why does Wal-Mart sell toy BB guns, like the one that John Crawford had when a cop shot him, if no one is buying them for kids?
"Bang bang"? We just saw ads of kids in the 1950s with a Mattel Tommy Burp; modeled after a Tommy machine gun, designed as a trench broom for the wholesale slaughter of Germans in WWI, and a favorite of gangsters. That was "ratta-tata-tata-tata I just fired off 50 shots".
But hey, I moved to Sweden 10 years ago, which doesn't have the US gun culture. Kids do play with toy guns (and without orange tips), which is safe because real guns are restricted, and people don't feel that they need guns to protect themselves, so there aren't real guns about, and so the police don't always need to worry about being shot. A white supremacist went on a killing spree at a school in my city, but as he had a sword and not a gun he only managed to kill three people.
I think it is interesting that people think that kids don’t play with guns any more. When I was a kid we played with toy guns – bang, I got you! – Oh no, I’m dead – and then someone falls to the ground giggling. For the last 10 years the toy guns may have become less common but the digital guns have more than replaced them. Now instead of shooting your friend and giggling, kids are immersed in huge raging battles with screaming, blood and gore. SO in the 60s it was bang bang oh you got me and now it’s wholesale slaughter with blood, gore and pleading for mercy. Yeah, kids are still playing with guns.
It's weird how everyone talks about this gun culture we have now being the cause of the mass shootings, but when I was a kid in the 80's all we ever played was "guns", cops and robbers, and cowboys and Indians. And yet today, it seems weird to even thing about kids playing with toy guns.
Throw some Nair on it or shave it off and you'll be left with this handsome devil.
"Bang bang"? We just saw ads of kids in the 1950s with a Mattel Tommy Burp; modeled after a Tommy machine gun, designed as a trench broom for the wholesale slaughter of Germans in WWI, and a favorite of gangsters. That was "ratta-tata-tata-tata I just fired off 50 shots".
But hey, I moved to Sweden 10 years ago, which doesn't have the US gun culture. Kids do play with toy guns (and without orange tips), which is safe because real guns are restricted, and people don't feel that they need guns to protect themselves, so there aren't real guns about, and so the police don't always need to worry about being shot. A white supremacist went on a killing spree at a school in my city, but as he had a sword and not a gun he only managed to kill three people.